KU Jayhawks basketball vs. Iowa State: Probable starters, tipoff, streaming, facts
THE DETAILS
When/where: 3 p.m., Saturday, Allen Fieldhouse
TV/streaming: ESPN+.
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; KFH (1240 AM, 97.5 FM) in Wichita
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Iowa State | Ht. | Yr. | PPG | |
C | 21 | Osun Osunniyi | 6-10 | Sr. | 8.1 | |
G | 22 | Gabe Kalscheur | 6-4 | Sr. | 11.8 | |
G | 13 | Jaren Holmes | 6-4 | Sr. | 13.1 | |
G | 3 | Tamin Lipsey | 6-1 | Fr. | 6.9 | |
G | 2 | Caleb Grill | 6-3 | Sr. | 11.1 | |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG | |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Soph. | 10.4 | |
F | 10 | Jalen Wilson | 6-8 | Jr. | 20.0 | |
G | 15 | Kevin McCullar | 6-6 | Sr. | 11.0 | |
G | 4 | Gradey Dick | 6-8 | Fr. | 14.3 | |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-1 | Jr. | 8.6 |
About No. 14 Iowa State (13-2, 4-0):
In Big 12 action, the Cyclones have defeated TCU and Oklahoma on the road and Baylor and Texas Tech in Ames, Iowa. … The Cyclones are 4-0 in the Big 12 for the first time since the 1999-00 season. ISU is shooting for a 5-0 start in the Big 12 for the first time in school history and just the second 5-0 conference start in program history. ... ISU’s victory at No. 17 TCU snapped a 15-game road losing streak to Top 25 teams. ... ISU is 4-18 all-time against the No. 2 team in the country. ISU is 2-10 against KU when the Jayhawks are No. 2. ...
Over the last two seasons, Iowa State is 24-3 against nonconference opponents. Highlights of this year’s nonconference slate included victories over North Carolina and Villanova. ISU lost at Iowa by 19 points and also lost to UConn by 18. … ISU has won six in a row. … Iowa State has forced 25 or more turnovers in a game three times this season. …
Tamin Lipsey is the 15th player in school history from Ames High School. … Caleb Grill returned to ISU last season after transferring to UNLV his sophomore year. The Wichita native scored 31 points this season in a win over then-No. 1 North Carolina. … Four starters have arrived via transfer: Grill, Jaren Holmes and Osun Osunniyi (both St. Bonaventure) and Gabe Kalscheur (Minnesota). … Second-year coach T.J. Otzelberger’s wife, Alison, was a three-time all-Big 12 player for the Cyclones and played for the WNBA’s Seattle Storm. She was inducted into the ISU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2022. …
ISU walk-on Conrad Hawley played football at Kansas last season. He’s a 6-5, 220-pound guard out of Raymore-Peculiar High School. … ISU is 118-288 all-time against ranked opponents. Otzelberger is 8-8 vs. ranked teams at ISU. … Jaz Kunc is the first Cyclone from Slovenia and Hason Ward is the first from Barbados. … ISU’s defense allows 57.7 points a game on 39.4% shooting. ISU averages 71.5 points a game on 46.9% shooting.
About No. 2 Kansas (15-1, 4-0):
Kansas leads the overall series with Iowa State 188-66 including a 97-16 record in meetings in Lawrence and 56-10 mark in Allen Fieldhouse. KU has won the last six meetings (and seven of eight) with ISU dating to Jan. 8, 2020.. … Bill Self is 32-10 versus ISU as KU coach. ...
KU is 15-1 or better for the seventh time in head coach Bill Self’s 20 seasons at KU. … KU is 4-0 in Big 12 play for the ninth time in the Self era and the first time since the 2016-17 season. … KU has won nine games in a row. The Jayhawks have won 15 consecutive games in Allen. … KU is 9-0 in Allen Fieldhouse this season and 839-116 all-time in the venue, including 301-16 in the Self era. …
Sophomore forward Zach Clemence made two three-pointers Tuesday vs. Oklahoma, the first time he hit for multiple threes since Nov. 18, 2021 vs. Stony Brook (2). … Sophomore forward KJ Adams has scored in double digits in nine consecutive games. … Jalen Wilson has scored 1,072 points in his career, passing Kelly Knight (1,057), Otto Schnellbacher (1,062), Rex Walters (1,064) and Udoka Azubuike (1,069) to move into 50th on the all-time scoring list. … Redshirt junior Dajuan Harris dished five assists and scored 11 points in Tuesday’s win over Oklahoma, finishing in double-figures for the third-straight game and the eighth time this season.
